Chad and Lesley's Adventures

Monday, January 21, 2013

Ivy is ONE!!!!

Ivy's first birthday - Large from Lesley Montandon on Vimeo.

Well, the day finally came and our baby girl turned a year old. This year went by so so so so fast. We had a small little party for her and she loved it! She loved opening her presents but she especially loved the cupcake.

Ezra was super excited about Ivy opening her presents as well.

At one year old, Ivy is still the sweetest, happiest, most content little girl I know. She takes two naps a day and goes to bed at about 6 p.m. She is a good eater and loves to eat all kinds of fruit, meat, pancakes, cheese, veggies, and drinks her milk like a champ. She army crawls everywhere and is really fast. She pulls up on everything. She loves bath time with her big brother and loves to be in the middle of whatever is going on. She loves playing with Ezra when he is not antagonizing her (we had to make him stop sitting on her head today). She really is so easy-going and flexible, especially if we are out and about, but if she is sleepy you better put her in her crib and let her go to sleep. She has four teeth, two on top and two on bottom, and two more about to come through on top. She says "mama," "bath," "hi," and likes to babble a lot. She really doesn't talk as much as Ezra did at her age, but I imagine the words will start coming quickly.

Thanks for looking at the pictures of her party and first year and sharing in our joy. We love this little girl so much!

Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Veryjane giveaway

My favorite deal site is having a giveaway and they just so happen to be giving away three of my favorite things. What a ka-winky-dink. Here is the link to enter...but don't enter, so I can win. :) https://veryjane.com/giveaway.htm

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Christmas 2012

This Christmas was definitely the most fun one yet. It really is true that when you have kids that know what's going on, it makes it that much more fun. Ezra had been talking about Christmas and presents for a long time, so there was lots of anticipation. Last year I was about 3 weeks from giving birth to Ivy, so we stayed home and had a quiet Christmas just the three of us. This year we went to my mom's house. The first order of business was to cut down the tree. My mom lives in the country right across from where my grandparents' old house is, and they always used to go out and cut a big juniper down to use as a Christmas tree. We picked a nice little tree and Chad had the honor of cutting it. He obviously took the job very seriously.

Ezra had fun running around the pasture while we looked for a tree.

As you can see the tree was pretty humble. My eight-year-old nephew Kellen was able to drag it back to the house by himself.

Pretty lights...

After the tree got set up, Ezra was in charge of putting all the presents under the tree from the closets where they were being kept. He did a really good job!

This morning Ezra was up before 4:30. He was so excited! He and Kellen had shared a bed last night so that meant Kellen was awake early too. We all hung out in mine and Chad's room and played Angry Birds on my Kindle until around 6 when the rest of the house stirred. Ivy loved opening up her stocking and the rest of her toys (until it was time to take her first nap).

We got Ivy her first baby doll...

The kids looked so cute in their Christmas pajamas (thanks Toni!)

On Christmas Eve we played a fun round of scrabble. Kellen and mom won. :)

Granny and all of her grandkids

Ezra got the coolest present from his daddy...a climbing wall in his room! I was so impressed with Chad's skills and Ezra loves it too. He's really good at it already but gets a little nervous when he gets high. He also likes the little hiding area underneath the bottom part.